CVE-2011-0447 actionpack Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability

What is CVE-2011-0447?

CVE-2011-0447 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Rubyonrails Rails, published on 14 Feb 2011. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Ruby on Rails 2.1.x, 2.2.x, and 2.3.x before 2.3.11, and 3.x before 3.0.4, does not properly validate HTTP requests that contain an X-Requested-With header, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks via forged (1) AJAX or (2) API requests that leverage "combinations of browser plugins and HTTP redirects," a related issue to CVE-2011-0696.

Weakness: CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-0447?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including actionpack. It affects 1 product.

Products include Rubyonrails Rails.

How do I fix CVE-2011-0447?

Upgrade actionpack to a fixed version for your release line: 2.3.11 or 3.0.4.

Is CVE-2011-0447 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-0447 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2011-0447, GHSA-24fg-p96v-hxh8.